This is a suggestion for how to design the JSON/REST protocol between the Angular application and the server, to handle creation of items easily and conveniently. Use a special ID value to indicate that the object does not exist on the server, and update like normal. The server detects this and creates it on demand. Read the rest of this entry »
Monthly Archives: June 2015
JSON/REST API – Handling Dates
In this post, I lay out the reason that you should always transfer dates in a JSON/REST API as an integer epoch value: the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970. If you think it should be anything else, please read on….
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